12V Electric Kettle

[cubensis]

Has anyone ever used one of these? Its an electric kettle that plugs into the cigarette lighter slot. We have cigarette loghters linked upto the leisure battery so no worries about draining the vans battery. Just a few questions if anyone has used these;

1) Do these take for ever to boil? (the one i'm looking at is 1 litre and seem to be around 160 watt which sounds a tiny amount of power!)

2) Do they drain an awfull lot from the battery?

3) Does anyone have a reccomendation of one to use?

[andisnewsyncro]

Personally, I'd have thought a kettle on a gas hob would be quicker and more efficient. I looked into these 12 volt ones a while back and a quick Google came up with results of anything from 20 minutes to boil half a litre to quite a bit longer...
Obviously there will be some that are more efficient than others, but I gave up on the idea

[robber_roo]

I wouldn't bother. We got one and it took 30minutes to get luke warm

[batmangb]

I had one in my Astravan, put it on one day leaving Canterbury. It eventually boiled as we joined the south circular in London!

[Plasticman]

That sounds like a NO then.
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